It’s looking like Fox could be involved in some phone hacking also: According to former Fox News executive Dan Cooper, whose gripes with his former employer run quite deep after being fired in 1996, Fox News chief Roger Ailes allegedly had him design the so-called “Brain Room” to facilitate counter-intelligence efforts and other “black ops.” […]
This story just keeps taking more new and interesting turns: In another twist in the News Of The World scandal, a former reporter for the tabloid who initially alleged that editor Andy Coulson knew about the practice of phone hacking by his staff, was reportedly found dead Monday. The Guardian reports that though police wouldn’t […]
A majority of people are against the handling of the debt crisis on the part of every party, but the vast majority disapprove of the way the Republicans are handling the issue than anyone else a CBS News poll finds. Approve Disapprove President Obama 43% 48% Democrats in Congress 31% 58% Republicans in Congress […]
I think that is the $1 million dollar question right now: Rupert Murdoch donated $1m to a pro-business lobby in the US months before the group launched a high-profile campaign to alter the anti-bribery law – the same law that could potentially be brought to bear against News Corporation over the phone-hacking scandal. News Corporation […]
We knew it was only a matter of time: Rebekah Brooks, the loyal lieutenant of Rupert Murdoch, resigned Friday as chief executive of his embattled British newspapers, becoming the biggest casualty so far in the phone hacking scandal at a Sunday tabloid. Murdoch had vigorously defended Brooks in the face of demands from politicians that […]
Eliot Spitzer is no stranger to corporate corruption. The former governor and attorney general of New York made it a point to make such cases a priority and he had a very high success rate. Today in Slate, the former governor is now calling for the Department of Justice to prosecute News Corp under the […]
MSNBC just reported that Ruppert Murdoch has dropped it’s bid to acquire British Sky Broadcasting (bSKYb).
The whole phone hacking scandal in the U.K. is evolving at a major clip. Here’s a round-up from the past 24 hours. The WSJ (a Murdoch company) is reporting the Ruppert Murdoch is considering selling News International as an attempt to save News Corp over all. Murdoch has already put feelers out to see if […]
This is why not everyone should own a gun! A freshman Arizona state Senator may be in need of some gun safety lessons. Richard Ruelas, a reporter for The Arizona Republic, found himself staring down the barrel of Republican state Sen. Lori Klein’s raspberry-pink firearm during a recent interview at the Capitol. “Oh, it’s so […]
The phone hacking scandal that has plagued the U.K. and gripped the attention of the world could really come home here in the U.S. now. News Corp is an American corporation, and while the entire hacking scandal has been solely in the U.K. (as far as we know), the U.S. does have laws against what […]